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...exchange for information." So success may depend largely on Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, a tough outfit that has racked up a formidable reputation as a state within a state. With more than 40,000 officers and staff whose headquarters are in a drab military compound in Islamabad, the ISI puts tentacles deep into Afghanistan through thousands of Pashtu-speaking Pakistanis and hundreds of free-lance Afghan spies lured with money and sanctuary for their families. As a godfather to the Taliban, which it has financed, supplied, advised and fought alongside, the ISI has intimate contacts with...
...Omar is a man of few words, but his word is law. Every matter, even if it is as petty as granting journalists permission to visit the Russian embassy compound in Kabul (where displaced Afghan families have been settled), is referred to Omar, who keeps cash in his office to pay needy Taliban fighters. He avoids public orations and is inarticulate while explaining his government policies. He has traveled just once outside of Afghanistan (to neighboring Pakistan for medical treatment) and has gone to Kabul, the country's capital, only once...
...that fighting around Bamiyan had stopped a month before and we would be the first foreign visitors since the Buddhas were destroyed. Ten hours north in the back of a truck brought us to a stop where a group of Taliban fighters escorted us to a stone-and-mud compound. In each corner stood a militiaman armed with a locally made AK-47 assault rifle and guarding piles of ammunition and missiles loosely stacked against a wall. We sat on the ground and tensely drank tea with our hosts. The mood lightened as more Taliban members arrived, hugging and slapping...
...support from Japan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Russia and Central Asian republics. But the perceived threat to Islamic groups angered Iran and triggered unrest in Indonesia and Pakistan, as well as among Taliban supporters in Kabul, who stormed and defaced the abandoned U.S embassy compound...
...insipid university community cannot do much harm. But problems ensue when students—armed with Marx in one hand and their class notes in the other—transpose their sheltered academic experience onto the real world. And the difficulties compound when Harvard egos enter the fray. This university’s self-important, ignorant bravado has never been more obvious than in our reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America...